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The following are some of the VIPs who attended Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral today:

President Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Former president George W. Bush
Former president Bill Clinton
Former president Jimmy Carter
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Former vice president Al Gore
Former vice president Walter Mondale
Former vice president Dan Quayle
Senator Orrin Hatch
Senator Christopher Dodd
Senator John McCain
Senator John Kerry
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Senator Roland Burris
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Olympia Snowe
Senator Harry Reid
Senator Jay Rockefeller
Senator Judd Gregg
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Senator Russ Feingold
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Al Franken
Senator Max Baucus
Senator Dick Durbin
Senator Tom Harkin
Senator Patrick Leahy
CIA Director Leon Panetta
Attorney General Eric Holder
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Housing and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius
EPA Secretary Henry Chu

First Lady Michelle Obama
Former First Lady Laura Bush
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
Former Senator John Warner
Former Senator Tom Daschle
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick
Former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley
US Representative Barney Frank
US Representative Stephen Lynch
US Representative Jesse Jackson III
US Representative William Delahunt
US Representative Ed Markey
US Representative John Lewis
Martin Meehan, former US Representative and chancellor of UMass-Lowell
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowan
Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Shaun Woodward, secretary of state for Northern Ireland
Martin McGuinness, deputy first minister for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Gerry Adams, leader of Ireland’s Sinn Fein
Harvard University President Drew G. Faust
Actor Jack Nicholson
Singer Tony Bennett
Joan Kennedy
Former Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell
Actor Jack Nicholson
Jesse Jackson Jr
Former Senator John Edwards
Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill
Singer Placido Domingo
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Walter Isaacson, biographer
Keith Motley, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts
Tony and Heather Podesta, lobbyists
Michael Collins, University of Massachusetts Medical School chancellor
Robert Travaglini, former president of the Massachusetts Senate
James Aloisi, Massachusetts secretary of transportation
Harold Ickes, former administrator under President Bill Clinton
Graham Allison, director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former assistant secretary of defense
Steve Grossman, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic party in Massachusetts
Jack Wilson, president of the University of Massachusetts
Charles R. Stith, founder and director of Boston University’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center and former ambassador to Tanzia
Nadav Tamir, Israeli consul general for New England
Boston Red Sox owner John Henry
Stephen Pagliuca, managing partner and executive committee member of the Boston Celtics; managing director of Bain Capital Partners
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
Journalist David Gregory, moderator of “Meet the Press”
Peter Meade, president and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley
Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cameron Kerry, Boston attorney and general counsel for the US Commerce Department; brother of Senator John F. Kerry
Adam Clymer, Kennedy biographer
John Podesta, co-chairman of President Obama’s transition team
John Sasso, veteran Democratic political consultant
Al Hunt, Washington managing editor for Bloomberg News
Hubie Jones, longtime civil rights advocate and dean emeritus of the Boston University School of Social Work
Bob Woodward, investigative reporter and associate editor of the Washington Post